GEOLAB Blind Prediction Contest - Supporting Documentation

As part of the GEOLAB project, the Institute of Geotechnics of TU Darmstadt called geotechnical engineers from industry and academia to participate in an international Blind Prediction Contest (BPC) on the response of piles under monotonic and cyclic lateral loading. Two separate tests were performed on a hollow open-ended steel pile embedded in dry sand. One test under monotonic loading and the other under quasi-static harmonic loading with more than 10,000 loading cycles.

Contestant teams were allowed to submit predictions for both tests or for the monotonic test only. The predictions were objectively marked based on their discrepancy with the experimental values. The teams with the higher score in the prediction of each test were publicly announced. The rest of the submitted predictions will be anonymised and used for assessing the state of the art and the state of practice by the organiser committee.

This dataset includes the supporting documentation provided to the participants.

作为GEOLAB项目的组成部分，达姆施塔特工业大学（TU Darmstadt）岩土工程研究所邀请工业界与学术界的岩土工程从业者，参与一项针对单调与循环侧向荷载下桩基响应的国际盲预测竞赛（Blind Prediction Contest, BPC）。本次竞赛针对埋置于干砂中的空心开口型钢桩开展了两组独立试验：一组为单调加载试验，另一组为包含超10000次加载循环的准静态简谐加载试验。

参赛团队可选择提交两组试验的预测结果，或仅提交单调加载试验的预测结果。所有预测结果将依据其与试验实测值的偏差进行客观评分。每组试验预测得分最高的团队将予以公开公示；其余提交的预测结果将进行匿名化处理，由组委会用于评估当前技术前沿与工程实践现状。

本数据集包含向参赛选手提供的全部辅助文档。